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Chemistry

Weike Wang · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Named a "Most Anticipated Novel of 2017" by Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, and Bustle A luminous coming-of-age novel about a young female scientist who must recalibrate her life when her academic career goes off track; perfect for readers of Lab Girl and Celeste Ng's...
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A Good Country

Laleh Khadivi · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A timely novel about the radicalization of a Muslim teen in California--about where identity truly lies, and how we find it.Laguna Beach, California, 2010. Alireza Courdee, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale...
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The Reef: A Novel

Juan Villoro · George Braziller Inc.
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

A Caribbean resort specializing in faked cartel kidnappings is the site for Villoro's profound and satirical murder mystery. Amidst stagings of guerilla warfare, rumors of killer bees and encroaching cartel activity, recovering ex-rocker, Tony Góngora, attempts to solve the mystery...
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After the Bloom

Leslie Shimotakahara · Dundurn
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback

A daughter's search for her mother reveals her family's past in a Japanese internment camp during the Second World War. Lily Takemitsu goes missing from her home in Toronto one luminous summer morning in the mid-1980s. Her daughter, Rita, knows her mother has a history of dissociation...
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The Heirs: A Novel

SUSAN RIEGER · CROWN
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

The new novel from the critically-acclaimed author of The Divorce Papers, about a wealthy, pedigreed Manhattan family that comes undone after the death of their patriarch.
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The Only Child

Andrew Pyper · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The #1 internationally bestselling author of The Demonologist radically reimagines the origins of gothic literature's founding masterpieces - Frankenstein, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Dracula - in a contemporary novel driven by relentless suspense and surprising emotion....
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Standard Deviation: A novel

Katherine Heiny · Knopf
Pages: 319
Format: Hardcover

A divinely funny novel from the celebrated author of Single, Carefree, Mellow about the challenges of a good marriage, the delight and heartache of raising children, and the irresistible temptation to wonder about the path not taken. When Graham Cavanaugh divorced his first wife it was to marry...
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New Boy

TRACY CHEVALIER · HOGARTH PR
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Arriving at his fifth school in as many years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can't stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides...
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The Awkward Age: A Novel

Francesca Segal · Riverhead Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A wry, tender novel about an ordinary family facing extraordinary choices. Julia Alden has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. American obstetrician James is everything she didn't know she wanted--if only her teenage daughter, Gwen, didn't hate him so much. Uniting two households...
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The Scribe of Siena: A Novel

Melodie Winawer · Touchstone
Pages: 452
Format: Hardcover

"Will remind historical fiction readers of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander and Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring ... Lovers of meticulously researched historical fiction and time-travel narratives will be swept away by the spell of medieval Siena" (Library Journal,...
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